Second-rate SFF writer. Reporter. He/him. Irregular newsletter about sci-fi at https://teapawt.net/t.co/reMoXoTBsC
Early Cretaceous
Joined November 2008
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This account is officially and fully dead. Find me at bluesky under my actual name.
Fuck Nazis.
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Reminder: I have migrated to Blue-Sky, look for me under my actual name.
It's basically like nerd Twitter from around 2012. Not perfect, but better than here.
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Matthew Claxton retweeted
|@ouranosaurus: “[Stations of the Tide is] definitively not a fantasy novel. But it is more fantastic than 90 percent of what is published as fantasy. There’s a constant tension in the modern fantasy genre over exactly how much magic should be demystified” open.substack.com/pub/unsett…
Who doesn't like Michael Swanwick novels?
No, really, I'm making a list of you jerks…
Writing about the numinous in fantasy again, so naturally I'm talking about a novel with AIs, space travel, cyberspace – and more magic than 90% of fantasy novels.
unsettlingfutures.substack.c…
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Writing about the numinous in fantasy again, so naturally I'm talking about a novel with AIs, space travel, cyberspace – and more magic than 90% of fantasy novels.
unsettlingfutures.substack.c…
Yet again, it is a good day to mention that I am on the Bloo-ski site, so if anyone wants to look me up there, my handle is my actual name.
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We are very much in the "fucking around" stage of having no support for local news outlets, and a lot of people are not going to like the "finding out" phase.
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Matthew Claxton retweeted
This gem was across the street from us as we refueled on our way home from Branson, MO - it's like the typical enterprise computing system, rendered in motel form:
ALT 1950s motel with after-market second floor and then a third floor like a ship and a bungalow slapped on top
Matthew Claxton retweeted
There is a monster at the bottom of the lake
Gerrothorax about to munch on a hypothetical capitosaur larvae. Late Triassic of Europe. Day 9 of my Ink-Marker sketches
Quote-tweeting because the algorithm suuuuuucks!
ICYMI: The Creator is the most visually stunning, yet ultimately empty and disappointing, cyberpunk movie in years.
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Matthew Claxton retweeted
Goodreads is giving away 100 copies of DESERT CREATURES in paperback between now and the 21st! enter to win! bully your friends into entering to win! etc.!
ICYMI: The Creator is the most visually stunning, yet ultimately empty and disappointing, cyberpunk movie in years.
unsettlingfutures.substack.c…
Matthew Claxton retweeted
|@ouranosaurus: “Edwards does not actually care about the ideas in his movie.
This is one of the purest cyberpunk movies made in the last 30 years. So we’re going to find out something about this new world, right? …
Nope.
Not a goddamn thing” #TheCreator open.substack.com/pub/unsett…
I really didn't like The Creator.
The Creator is a hollow shell, exoticized Asian cyberpunk without any genuine ideas, characters, or even interest in anything other than making a pretty vista.
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The Creator is a hollow shell, exoticized Asian cyberpunk without any genuine ideas, characters, or even interest in anything other than making a pretty vista.
unsettlingfutures.substack.c…
The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight/
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now/
She'd a list to the port and her sails in rags/
And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags
More and more I'm convinced that a proper bankruptcy and breaking up is the best thing that could happen to what's left of Postmedia.
It's that, or nationalize the damn thing so we have some regional newspapers left outside of Toronto.
It's ostensibly a review of a book about Postmedia (my employer) but this article by John Cruickshank does a good job of explaining the economics of the newspaper industry, and what critics get right and wrong about newspaper chains. reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202…
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